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Blessings in a Backpack

Overview
Headquarters: 
Louisville, KY, USA
Size: 
11-50 employees
Founded: 
2008
Annual Budget : 
$10-50M
Populations Served: 
Children and Youth
About Us
Mission: 

Blessings in a Backpack (Blessings) mobilizes communities, individuals, and resources to provide food on the weekends for elementary school children across America who might otherwise go hungry .

Programs: 

Each week of the school year, Blessings and its thousands of volunteers and partners send a bag of food home with children who, during the week are fed by free and reduced -price meal program.

Blessings in a Backpack started with just two schools in 2005 and now serves 88,900 students in 1092 schools spread throughout 46 states and the District of Columbia.

Awards & Accolades: 
Guide Star - Seal of Transparency - Platinum
Charity Navigator - Four Star Charity
Why Work For Us?: 

We are looking for individuals who are interested in building their careers around ensuring kids facing food insecurity have access to satisfying, nutritional weekend nutrition.

The Blessings teams offers diverse work styles and experiences, and all team members strive to EMPOWER all those around us; VALUE our heritage, while ENCOURAGING growth and diversity; and always SUPPORT and RESPECT all relationships with open communication.

industry: 
Nonprofit